Curating new and relevant content and tailoring it to their own, unique needs will become a key skill required by future teachers.
Why? Professional development becomes attractively cost effective in such a process, and money and budgets are powerful influencers for change.
Soon enough, large institutions will realize that the most effective professional development (PD) happens through networks, networks accessed through social media. More PD happens on Twitter for example in one night than a teacher is likely to get in a year through formal conferences and staff meetings.
Presently, departments of education around the world spend phenomenal amounts of money of professional development, yet many teachers for whom such development is “designed” for gain little from it, and are often left to their own device to self-direct their own improvement. To be clear, self-directed “training” is fine, provided it doesn’t occur while struggling against school and district-led training, one pulling in one direction, the other in another.
No matter the presenter, all teacher professional development must provide teachers with authentic and personalized opportunities to satisfy current theoretical understandings about their practice. It’s a logical sequence that when budgets are looking to be cut, expensive PD, when it can be gained elsewhere, will suffer the chop.

Blended Professional Development Just Might Have Some Answers